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Lurking around in the depths of my PC was an interesting lesson on chord subs, it had left me puzzled for a long time at least 6 yrs if you must know. After going over it with @aldevis it began to make more sense.
So I thought it would make a nice little intro into the world of chord subs.
1/ C Am | Dm G7 = Rock and Country
2/ CMaj7 Am7 | Dm7 G7 = Pop
3/ Cmaj7 A7b9 | Dm7 G7 = Jazz
4/ Cma7/E A7b9 | Dm7 G7
5/ Cmaj7/E Eb7 | Dm7 G7
6/ Cmaj7/E Eb9 | Dm9 Db9
The top line is your average 1625 chord progression for a lot of Rock/Country music. The second line is your average Pop song, you can see each chord has had another note to it the 7th. The next 4 lines are a variety of chord substitutions that jazz musicians can/do make. This applies to writers and improvisers alike.
Taking it from an improv point of view, your Realbook/fakebook chart has the basic changes to a tune, for example line 2 or 3. You as the player can feel free to alter that chord progression with any of the chords in the other lines, so yes the piano and bass are playing line 2 and you are going to play over line 6. Or even the piano and bass are playing line 5 and you the player are going to play over line 2. Having a progression that uses chord subs doesn't always mean the the basic key for the progression is altered, in the example of line 6 if you play in the key Cmaj you won't hurt anyones ears honest and the jazz police won't be knocking on your door.
Below is a link to some chord charts and two backing tracks, feel free to download them and play around with some of the ideas. The mp3's are in Bb and have just 32bars, one uses chord subs and one uses no subs.
The charts are transpose for Bb and Eb instruments. Also there is a demo of me playing over the chord sub backing track and sticking to the key of C for the note choice. Which should show that despite the out of Key chords the key hasn't changed it's nature.
"1625 Chord Charts & mp3's"
Finally feel free to post any thoughts/findings and your own examples of what you played..
Lurking around in the depths of my PC was an interesting lesson on chord subs, it had left me puzzled for a long time at least 6 yrs if you must know. After going over it with @aldevis it began to make more sense.
So I thought it would make a nice little intro into the world of chord subs.
1/ C Am | Dm G7 = Rock and Country
2/ CMaj7 Am7 | Dm7 G7 = Pop
3/ Cmaj7 A7b9 | Dm7 G7 = Jazz
4/ Cma7/E A7b9 | Dm7 G7
5/ Cmaj7/E Eb7 | Dm7 G7
6/ Cmaj7/E Eb9 | Dm9 Db9
The top line is your average 1625 chord progression for a lot of Rock/Country music. The second line is your average Pop song, you can see each chord has had another note to it the 7th. The next 4 lines are a variety of chord substitutions that jazz musicians can/do make. This applies to writers and improvisers alike.
Taking it from an improv point of view, your Realbook/fakebook chart has the basic changes to a tune, for example line 2 or 3. You as the player can feel free to alter that chord progression with any of the chords in the other lines, so yes the piano and bass are playing line 2 and you are going to play over line 6. Or even the piano and bass are playing line 5 and you the player are going to play over line 2. Having a progression that uses chord subs doesn't always mean the the basic key for the progression is altered, in the example of line 6 if you play in the key Cmaj you won't hurt anyones ears honest and the jazz police won't be knocking on your door.
Below is a link to some chord charts and two backing tracks, feel free to download them and play around with some of the ideas. The mp3's are in Bb and have just 32bars, one uses chord subs and one uses no subs.
The charts are transpose for Bb and Eb instruments. Also there is a demo of me playing over the chord sub backing track and sticking to the key of C for the note choice. Which should show that despite the out of Key chords the key hasn't changed it's nature.
"1625 Chord Charts & mp3's"
Finally feel free to post any thoughts/findings and your own examples of what you played..